Domestic-violence crisis in Shreveport foreshadowed deadly eight-child shooting
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Weeks before a gunman killed eight children in Shreveport (seven of them his own), local officials warned of a domestic-violence epidemic in the city, highlighting Louisiana’s troubling pattern of domestic killings and the complex ties between mental health, abuse, and gun violence.
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